| Answer | % Correct |
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| 70% of France's electricity is generated by {nuclear} power, the highest proportion in the world. | 100%
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| After his brief return from exile, {Napoleon} was finally defeated in 1815 at the Battle of Waterloo. | 100%
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| {England} and France entered the off-and-on Hundred Years' War. | 100%
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| France is the world's top {tourist} destination, ahead of Spain (85 million) and the United States (66 million). | 100%
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| On 6 June 1944, the Allies invaded {Normandy} and in August they invaded Provence. | 100%
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| The nation also hosts the {Cannes} Festival, one of the most important and famous film festivals in the world. | 100%
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| The Storming of the {Bastille} on 14 July led to a series of radical measures by the Assembly. | 100%
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| A {face} transplant was first done on 27 November 2005 by Bernard Devauchelle. | 75%
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| {Cubism} was developed by Georges Braque and the Spanish painter Pablo Picasso, living in Paris. | 75%
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| Since the 1960s, France has developed close ties with reunified {Germany}. | 75%
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| By 2006, the {Michelin} Guide had awarded 620 stars to French restaurants. | 50%
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| Charlemagne tried to revive the Western {Roman} Empire and its cultural grandeur. | 50%
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| In 600 BC, Ionian Greeks from Phocaea founded the colony of Massalia (present-day {Marseille}). | 50%
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| Mont Blanc, located in the {Alps} on the France-Italy border, is the highest point in Western Europe. | 50%
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| Clovis said he would be baptised a {Christian} in the event of victory against the Visigothic Kingdom. | 25%
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| In 2010, it banned the wearing of face-covering {Islamic} veils in public. | 25%
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| Metropolitan France was settled during the Iron Age by Celtic tribes known as {Gauls}. | 25%
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| In 2022, more than 320,000 migrants came to France, with the majority coming from {Africa}. | 0%
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| Jules Ferry is considered the father of the French modern {school}, leading reforms in the late 19th century. | 0%
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| Rameau became the dominant composer of French {opera} and the leading French composer of the harpsichord. | 0%
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